In an unusual collaboration among scientists and humanists, a Cornell team has demonstrated a novel method for recovering faded text on ancient stone by zapping and mapping 2,000-year-old inscriptions using X-ray fluorescence imaging.
A molecule first identified by Weill Medical College of Cornell University scientists as useful in intra-cellular transport mechanisms appears to have another trick up its sleeve.
A new study using an old, misunderstood technique -- hypnotic suggestion -- finds the brain can override responses experts have long assumed to be ingrained and automatic, such as reading. (Aug. 1, 2005)
Early this summer, 17 undergraduates descended on the Cornell campus from colleges across the nation. Their mission: to learn more about plants and whether plant science is for them.
Dr. J was a hemisphere away and could not see the July 27 culmination of her students' four weeks of work in person. But from somewhere in China, thanks to modern technology, Dr. J was watching.
For the Northeast, it has been hotter than ever. The upstate New York cities of Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Ithaca, Utica and Binghamton have had their hottest June and July ever officially recorded, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
A study by Cornell professor Jun-Lin Guan, published in the August 2005 issue of the journal Developmental Cell, reveals how connective tissue holding a cancer cell in place might degrade, unmooring the diseased cell and allowing it to spread to other parts of the body.
Science Spectrum magazine has named the top minorities in science for 2005, which includes two Cornell researchers: Kevin T. Kornegay, Cornell associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Cornell Broadband Communications Research laboratory, and Lisa Staiano-Coico, dean of the College of Human Ecology.
Similar to how a cricket chirps by rubbing together sound-making apparatus in its wings, male club-winged manakins use specially adapted feathers in each wing to make a violinlike hum, according to a Cornell University ornithologist in the July 29 issue of Science. The sound and how the bird produces it are unique among vertebrates.
The stereotype is that students head for Florida on spring break, but a small group of Cornell engineering students went a bit farther south earlier this year for a more serious purpose: bringing clean water to a small rural village in Honduras.
Maury Tigner, professor emeritus of physics and director of the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell, is one of 12 winners of the American Physical Society's (APS) 2005 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award for work on boost phase intercept systems for national missile defense.
The Lab of Ornithology's Citizen Science Program at Cornell University is the largest program of its kind in the world. It puts 35,000 volunteers from around the world to work collecting data on the behavior and characteristics of birds.
